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12.11.2024

ISYY's delegation to the General Assembly of SYL is confirmed

The Representative Council of the Student Union of the University of Eastern Finland (ISYY) has named its delegation to represent ISYY in the General Assembly of the National Union of Students in Finland (SYL) in Espoo Otaniemi 15.11.2024–16.11.2024. In the Meeting Notice of the National Assembly is e.g. the Action Plan and Budget for the year 2025 and also the SYL Board 2025 will be elected. ISYY's candidate to the SYL Board is Mirka Nieminen.

Formation of the delegation

The National Union of the University Students in Finland in a student organisation, that represents approximately 140 000 university students in Finland. All the Student Unions in Finland are members of SYL. The General Assembly makes all the big decisions considering the unions actions and it is held once a year. Every Student Union has their own delegation according to the amount of members in the Student Union, each student union has one representative for each beginning 1000 members, meaning that e.g. ISYY has approximately 14 000 members and we have 15 representatives in our delegation. Additionally, ISYY will send 7 substitute representatives to the General Assembly.

ISYY's Representative Council has decided to form the delegation during their term 2024–2025 in a way, that each Representative Council group can name representatives to the delegation according to the distribution of the ISYY Representative Council and also in a way that possible disproportions will be justified in next years delegation. In other words, the more the group has places in our Representative Council, the more they have places in the delegation. Nevertheless, all the groups are represented in the actual 15 representatives at least in one delegation of their two year term 2024–2025. This year the groups named representatives by the following: 

• Itä-Suomen Vihreä Vasemmisto: 3 representatives
• Keskeiset: 2 representatives, 1 substitute
• Savilahden Sivistyneet: 2 representatives, 1 substitute
• Kylterit: 2 representatives
• DeeKu: 2 representatives
• Vihreä lista: 2 representatives
• ISYY:n demariopiskelijat: 1 representative, 1 substitute
• Opiskelevat kokoomuslaiset: 1 representative, 1 substitute
• FaBio: 1 substitute

Two last substitute positions will be named for the ISYY's SYL Board candidate and to their support person.

ISYY General Assembly delegation 2024

ISYY's General Assembly consists of 15 actual and 7 substitute representatives. Chairperson of the Delegation is ISYY Executive Board's member Miika Hiltunen. If you have any questions considering the General Assembly or the actions of the delegation, you can take contact to Miika.

Representatives:

1. Ruska Itkonen
2. Maija Kuivalainen
3. Ville-Pekka Timonen
4. Emmi Vetikko
5. Miika Hiltunen
6. Jaana Sivula
7. Lidia Backlund
8. Janina Gunnar
9. Julia Liljegren
10. Yoshitha Vidanagamage
11. Mikko Nissinen
12. Julia Tenhunen
13. Jimi Viita-aho
14. Julia Lautala
15. Susanne Kalin

Substitutes (in order):

1. Miro Helminen
2. Jasmin Närhi
3. Rosa-Maria Hiltunen
4. Kaisa Rautiainen
5. Marko Koskelo
6. Senjo Strandman
7. Mirka Nieminen

Read more:

Isyy.fi, opens in a new tab: Announcement: ISYY nominates Mirka Nieminen as a candidate for the Board of SYL for 2025 (published on 27.9.2024)

Syl.fi, opens in a new tab: The National Union of University Students in Finland -website

Further information:

Miika Hiltunen, Chair of the Delegation, The Student Union of the University of Eastern Finland, miika.hiltunen(at)isyy.fi, tel. +358 45 870 746